The Polish zloty strengthened today after Bronislaw Komorowski won in the presidential election, spurring the hopes that his victory would help to reduce the nation’s budget and to adopt the euro in 2015.

The Australian dollar experienced the significant losses this week on the concerns for the new mining tax, which, while eased somewhat, didn’t go away completely.

The Canadian dollar declined today amid the concerns for the economic recovery, which prompted the traders to cut the bets on the increase of the interest rates by the central bank.

The U.S. dollar dropped today against the euro as the macroeconomic indicators added to the evidences that the U.S. economic recovery is slowing, decreasing the appeal of the greenback as the safe currency.

The Japanese yen fell today against other most-traded currencies after the Australian government agreed to review the mining taxes, improving the global risk sentiment.

The Mexican peso weakened today, falling against the dollar for the whole week, after the reports showed that the index of the pending home sales in the U.S. fell and the jobless claims unexpectedly increased.

The Swiss franc dropped today against the euro, leading to the speculation that the Swiss National Bank renewed its selling of the franc to prevent the strong currency from harming the economy; the U.S. dollar demonstrated the worse performance, therefore against the greenback the Swiss currency rose.

The U.S. dollar weakened today on the signs that the economic recovery in the U.S. might slow and as the European fiscal system showed the signs of recovery, damping the appeal of the U.S. currency as the safe haven.

The Canadian dollar fell today to the lowest level since July 7th against the U.S. currency and to the lowest level in more than a month versus the euro after the report showed that Canada’s economic growth halted in April and the U.S. employers added fewer jobs than was expected.

The Chilean peso weakened today against the euro as the industrial output and sales rose less than forecast and the mining production fell.